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From staffing shortages to lack of guidance, the pandemic made Texas’ rural health issues worse, providers say

May 20, 2022

Running Low on Options: Health Care in Rural Texas Having trouble viewing? Watch this video on texastribune.org. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, health care systems and hospitals in rural Texas have had to scramble to meet the needs of patients with limited...

City of Texarkana, Texas to conduct health disparities survey | Texarkana

May 19, 2022

TEXARKANA, Texas – The City of Texarkana, Texas is asking for the community’s participation in a study over disparities in healthcare. The Texarkana – Bowie County Family Health Center recently received a state grant to distribute a survey that takes...

Texas is one of the worst states for senior health, life expectancy

May 18, 2022

Chandler France, Texas Digital Reporter May 15, 2022Updated: May 15, 2022 2:35 p.m. Texas ranks near the bottom in the nation for states with the most improved outlooks for people over 65, a study found. The Good Brigade/Getty Images Even as death rates across the...

Looming end of federal pandemic emergency threatens to shake Texas’ Medicaid safety net, advocates say

May 17, 2022

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. At the start of the pandemic, when family earners lost their jobs and access to health care, the federal government relaxed Medicaid rules to allow more people...

Texas-style ban on most abortions approved in Oklahoma

May 15, 2022

Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-OK) signed a Texas-style abortion ban that prohibits the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy, just one day after the reveal of a draft opinion that indicates the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. The bill, which was passed earlier...

In Central Texas, both sides vow to continue fight regardless of SCOTUS decision

May 13, 2022

WACO, Texas (KWTX) – Local analysts and stakeholders are weighting-in Tuesday after a draft Supreme Court opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked Monday night. “The initial leak itself is unprecedented, like everyone I was shocked,” said Lucas Loafman, Assoc....